Posted on 05/30/2016 7:56:11 PM PDT by GonzoII
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are deadlocked in the swing state of New Hampshire, but a stunning two-thirds of likely voters say they don’t like either of them, a new Franklin Pierce University-Boston Herald poll reveals.
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Clinton and Trump are both getting 44 percent of the vote in a general-election matchup yet just only a third of all voters have a favorable view of the two likely presidential nominees, according to the new poll.
The poll should cause some concern among Democrats who have counted on New Hampshire’s four electoral votes for the past three elections.
Clinton was trounced in the primary by Sen. Bernie Sanders and now appears vulnerable even against the widely disliked Trump.
The new poll gives also some ammunition to supporters of Sanders who say he would be a stronger candidate against Trump.
Clinton’s unpopularity in the Granite State is making the race a tossup in a state where Republicans now hold only one major statewide office.
Just 35 percent of likely New Hampshire voters rate the former secretary of state favorably while 61 percent say they have an unfavorable view of her, according to the Franklin Pierce-Herald poll.
But Trump is faring just as badly — 34 percent have a positive view of him while 62 percent give him unfavorable marks.
The Franklin Pierce-Herald poll of 405 likely New Hampshire voters was conducted from May 25-28 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percent.
The other hotly-contested race in the Granite State, for U.S. Senate, is also dead even, with Republican incumbent Kelly Ayotte facing a tough challenge from Gov. Maggie Hassan.
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Trump took the Granite State...I think this is all hog wash...they don’t want people to know that Trump is pounding the crap out of Clinton, that’s why all the ‘Uncle Joe and Lieahauntas’ bs is hitting the online media twits...
GO.TRUMP.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE OVAL OFFICE!!!
I wonder if this year the Libertarian party will pull just enough of the youth vote away from Dems in key states like Colororado,, New Hampshire, and New Mexico. I am not a Big Trump guy (I still love him and Arnold as American icons) but I would vote for my mailman against Hillary. I suspect most reluctant a Trump people will get there eventually. I think HRC is in big trouble.
I’m pretty sure that NH this year will go with the electoral vote winner.
Much ado about practically nothing (4 electoral votes)
New Hampshire & Iowa, 2 vastly over rated states.
I love the way they minimize the ‘bars’ for Clinton so you really have to read the numbers to see that Democrats, more than Republicans, are thinking of crossing over and voting for the other candidate.
Also, not sure why the libertarian wasn’t included in these numbers, again, I think that’s on purpose like the bars as having that third option would likely hurt Clinton more than Trump.
In 2000, George W. Bush won the presidency with 271 electoral votes. He won New Hampshire by a margin of 1.2% over Gore. He loses those 4 electoral votes, Gore would have won. Can’t be complacent about anything.
Uh oh, Trump is winning, quick, we need a third party candidate to swing it to Hillary
Ah, poor Hillary. She can’t even win in blue states anymore.
Real Clear Politics has Hillary winning NH by 8% right now in their poll averages, but that includes a couple very old polls. Once they add this new poll and eventually drop the old ones, Trump should be doing much better. The most recent NH poll before this one had Hillary only winning by 2%, well within the margin of error. It’s definitely a winnable state for Trump. This might be the sort of place where his appeal to Bernie voters who want an uncorrupted outsider could pay off potentially.
Yup.
NH is now a reliable Blue State.
Hillary should win it easily. The fact she’s tied spells how big a hole her campaign has fallen into.
Couple that with OR and it adds up to a dismal picture for the presumptive Democratic nominee.
A poll came out a few days ago showing Trump with a 2 percent lead over Clinton in OREGON..Oregon is so far left they make Vermont blush at times and Trump is leading by 2..if he is leading in Oregon he can win other lefty states
Only the Portland area is leftist.
The valley is conservative, and Bend is conservative.
Donald Trump is going to win in such a landslide that the pundits are going to be dumbfounded, flabbergasted, and taken aback all at the same time...
Thanks to Donald Trump, a major electoral realignment is coming. The GOP is going to become the dominant national party, with Trump making major inroads into traditional Democrat demographics. The paradigm shift will be so profound that the Democrat party will be relegated to minority status at the national level for decades to come.
And Bill Kristol and his neocon ilk will just dissolve into utter irrelevance.
The Revolution is ON!
Trump should be using Revolutionary symbolism and rhetoric as much as possible. Because that's exactly what this is.
My only regret is that some former Ted Cruz supporters still don't realize what has happened this primary season.
But there's still plenty of time to jump aboard and ride the Trump Train to total victory!
Vote Trump!
No, they add up. Bush won in 2000 because of NH and, I think, NM. Everyone remembers FL, but without NH, Bush still would have lost.
“New Hampshire & Iowa, 2 vastly over rated states.”
So I take it you don’t like rocks and corn?
I think you forgot gobsmacked!
I would vote for Beelzebub incarnate against Hillary and be happy to do it.
And in 2000, a minor upset on election night, was to see formerly reliably Democrat West Virginia go for Bush.
I think WV only has 5 electoral votes, but with the 2000 election so close, if WV had gone Democrat as it normally had up to that point, Gore would have become president. There would have been no need for the hanging chad recount in Florida.
So certainly every state, no matter how small, is important.
From NY to IN, Trump over-performed his Real Clear Politics polling by an average of 9 percentage points. So, there is a distinct possibility that the poll in NH is under polling his support by at least 3 or 4 points, maybe more.
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